February 2009
1 post
December 2008
5 posts
Shit wrecked
I have become a socialite.
Why?
Why oh why do pictures taken on my iPhone always end up sideways on Tumblr??
highly aggravating.
November 2008
15 posts
Twilight Review
It took me six days to finish the four books in the Twilight saga. I didn’t go out, I barely slept. I went to work, came home and read until my eyes denied my efforts to stay awake. Instantly I feel in love with the concept of Edward and Bella. An immortal falling in love with a mortal and vice versa.
Stephenie Meyer recreated the image of vampires to the young generation. And I was...
I thought.
I thought I had a blog but then the idea vanished from me.
Doesn’t everyone hate that?
Throughout the day these amazing ideas or just thoughts trail across your mind and you think to yourself “holy shit that is an amazing epiphany” but then you realize, you have no way of recording it and it just escapes you. It sucks.
Perhaps if I sleep on it, it will come to me.
Oh. Ps....
FoThanksgiving
There are very few days out of the year that have a constant theme to them. The exceptions for my family are as follows: Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. All of these have one thing in common. Meat meat and more bloody meat. Well actually not literally bloody, but the point stands.
Six years go I was part of the meat-eating, turkey loving gravy basting entourage. But now I am part of the tofu...
How to accept a gay teen
The story of coming out of the closet differs from each homosexual. Some have tales of parents who did not care, some had stories of parents who might have already known and then there are some tragic accounts of parents being so un-accepting that they have kicked their child out of the house.
Despite the tremendous steps in social equality for the GLBTQ community, it is still a very rough time...
Podwhat?
Oh I have heard of them. I see the that little tab in my iTunes and I sometimes accidently click on it and a friendly box says “Podcasts are radio shows that are downloaded over the Internet. You can find a variety of podcasts in the Podcast Directory. Subscribe to them and iTunes will automatically download new episodes.”
But have I actually listened to one? Not that I can recall to...
WatchSeven of my pictures from the Obama Rally on November 4, 2008.
Yes we did!
Why should he care?
As America’s voice echoed throughout the night on Nov. 4, a man took center stage as the new President elect.
Chicagoans rejoiced, foreigners rejoiced and yet some others were saddened. President elect Obama is a great man, but he can’t please everybody. And my roommate unfortunately happens to fall into that everyone else category.
I woke up this morning exhausted yet still showing...
October 2008
19 posts
It's all Css to me
I has a jesus moment.
One of those moments where a light shines down and the “AHHHHH” music starts playing in my head.
It was at 5 a.m. this morning when I woke up and could not go back to sleep and I rolled over, grabbed my iPhone and started checking local news and blogs to see what was going on at that ungodly hour in the morning. The Internet has fully integrated itself into my...
And I am back
So where have I been?
Here I am sitting on my ass for the past few days, thinking I want to get involved with mobile and social journalism and I have not even posted for almost five days. Way to fail on that one Colin.
Let’s get started shall we?
last night as a group of friends casually got together to casually drink college class beer, one mentioned that he was happy with just working....
So now what?
As woke this morning, I had one thought in my head-This is the last day at Argo Tea for me. Survive 6 hours more and then you are home free for a better job.
At work I got many sad faces as my ex-fellow workers discovered they would no longer see me dawning the black apron adorned with smiley face stickers and the customary green headband, that I admit I should have washed once or twice. But they...
Civil Unions, a must or a bust?
And then there were three.
Three states, that is, that now allow same-sex marriages. To be clear, these are not civil unions, these are marriages that can be in a Church, in a Temple or any where else that marriages can be formed.
Once I found out that Connecticut joined the ranks of California and Massachusetts in allowing gay marriage, I began to feel that there really is hope in this country...
The ironic side of life
As I was going through the checkout at the Trader Joes in Lincoln Park, the cashier struck up a conversation with me, something I am not unaccustomed to at a Trader Joes. It started out like this.
Cashier: “Are all these for you?”
me: “That they are hun, I just got a shit ton of money”
Cashier: “And how the hell did you get this money in this economy?...
Old Vs New
I could not post about the debate last night. I had to calm myself down and let my mind unravel what had been said, and even what had not been said. I had to sleep in order to mull my own thoughts over. The debate was, in my opinion, a tense episode between the Elephants and Donkeys.
Despite MSNBC saying McCain was the winner of the debate, I think they accidently watched a rerun of one the...
Ronald McDonald the conservative
For ever step forward the GLBTQ community takes, the nation will somehow force us back two steps. The victory in Connecticut for allowing gays and lesbians to get married was a tremendous step forward for the goal of achieving equal rights for the GLBTQ community.
But now, after the American Family Association threatened to boycott McDonalds if they continue supporting the Gay and lesbian Chamber...
The light side of politics
Television has gone political.
Ever since Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate, the spoofs from SNL came rolling in, boosting viewer ship by 50 percent. And according to NBC, that is an unheard of increase in viewership in today’s television.
New York Times writer Bill Carter has written a really good trend story that describes the impact politics has on television and...
The debate
Check out this graphic designer’s creation on the amount of times each candidate said a certain word!
We all want to know how many times McCain said “my friends”
http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/2008/10/07/obama-vs-mccain-what-they-said-at-the-2nd-debate/
Stars
The worst part about live concerts? The waiting. Waiting for the opening act, waiting for them to stop playing songs barely anyone in the audience knows, waiting for them to dismantle their stage set up, and waiting for the premiering band to assemble their stage and finally waiting for the band to begin. For this reason, most people plan on attending the concert well after the warm-up acts begin....
Q&A With In & Out sex writer Debbie Herbenick
There are over 2.8 million single or taken men and women living in Chicago and its surrounding neighborhoods. Within that population, a vast majority take part in the throws of passion or one night stands. To them, sex is sex. But what happens with something goes awry and sex is no longer sex but becomes an aspect of life that leads to unanswered questions and complicated relationships?
Doctors...
Are you registered?
These days it seems impossible to walk through a Columbia College building without having at least one person come up to you and ask “Are you registered to Vote?”
At first I thought it was annoying, must I carry a sign around that says “yes I can vote”?
But wait.
Are you?
Are you. YOU actually taking control of your power to change this government, this country, this...
my first post from an iPhone
holy hell.
Iphone can do this. I need one.
breaking bank
if any one wants to see the economy effedct someone locally, all they have to do is look at me, where i can barely afford the necessities of life. i live off of food from plum cafe
Blame Russia?
Before one jumps to the conclusion that I am going to launch into some anti-russia/Georgia rant or some I can see Russia from my flat in Chicago, that is not the point. Just keep those wandering eyes on here and you’ll see it is actually about my worst group experience ever.
Fade back to 8th grade, in my history class with a teacher who looks like he should have been a Boy Scout Master for...
September 2008
8 posts
Move over Cs
As one passes a magazine newsstand, a new cover might catch their wondering eye. bright, colorful and exceptionally large, the debut issue of Michigan Avenue came out on Sept. 15.
Its leading competitor? Chicago Social of course. Michigan Avenue already brought multiple writers from CS to their own writing staff, giving the new Chicago-oriented magazine well established Chicagoan culture...
it's not a pornanet
To all the guys-
When we were first asked to blog about what the internet has done for us I can almost guarentee that the first lightning fast thought that wizzed through your head was porn. No longer did we have to turn to our parents for “the talk.” Oh no, everything we learned about almost every form of sex, where babies came from we learned from the internet.
I will admit that is...
A is not for Apple, it is for 50 bucks
There is a great debate going on in the Chicago Public School system that started last week when the district announced a program that would pay students $50 dollars if they receive an A in a class. A ‘B’ grade constitutes $35 and a ‘C’ grade grants the student $20.
The debate of course is whether or not this is an ethical decision to bride the students into working hard...
A better Chicago? About time
In a time where our newspapers and online news sources are sprawled with articles concerning the CTA’s lack of funding, the Tribunes termination of numerous employees and the bid for the 2016 Olympics going badly, it is finally a relief to see a headline that gives hope to Chicagoans that there is a potentially better Windy City in the years to come.
The Tribune published an article in...
To the web or not to the web?
As a child, my parents apprently knew that I wanted to be a journalist because they gave me a fake newspaper that I could create all on my own, most likely from Toys-R-Us. It had a news section, entertainment section and even a sports section–though at the time the sport section was filled with what Ken and Barbie were doing (my sister’s dolls I swear).
Back then, who would have known that...
The Gist of Colin Shively
Much like the well-trained journalist–reserved in one’s thoughts observant to the world and punctual with facts, I am a quiet individual trained at refraining from voicing my own opinion.
Yet, I am not a wallflower, one who listens and always records, never partaking in the action or the debate at hand. When I have the chance and the situation calls for it, I will make my opinion known to those...
